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Reading Families : Women's Literate Practice in Late Medieval England /
"Reading Families looks at the literate practice of two individual women, Margaret Paston and Margaret Beaufort, and of two communities in which women were central, the Norwich Lollards and the Bridgettines at Syon Abbey. The book begins with Paston's letters, which were written at her hus...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : from law to practice : women, resistance, and writing
- Husbands and sons : Margaret Paston's letter-writing
- Margaret Beaufort's literate practice : service and self-inscription
- Children of God : women Lollards at Norwich
- Reading at Syon Abbey
- Conclusion : medieval women authors?